liqueo
See also: Liqueo
Latin
Etymology
Stative from Proto-Italic *wlikʷēō, from Proto-Indo-European *wlikʷ-éh₁-ye-ti, from *wleykʷ- (“to flow, run, moisten”); compare Irish fliuch (“wet”), Tocharian A lyīktsi (“to wash”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈli.kʷe.oː/, [ˈlʲɪkʷeoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈli.kwe.o/, [ˈliːkweo]
Verb
liqueō (present infinitive liquēre, perfect active licuī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- to be liquid, fluid
- c. 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Naturales quaestiones 6.5.1:
- Causam qua terra concutitur alii in aqua esse, alii in ignibus, alii in ipsa terra, alii in spiritu putauerunt, alii in pluribus, alii in omnibus his; quidam liquere ipsis aliquam ex istis causam esse dixerunt, sed non liquere quae esset.
- to be clear, transparent, limpid
- (figuratively) to be clear, evident, apparent
Conjugation
- The third principal part may be licuī or liquī.
Derived terms
Related terms
- liquefactiō
- liquidē
- liquiditās
- liquidiusculus
- liquidō
References
- “liqueo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “liqueo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- liqueo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 345
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